Cinema: Fan Dance

ALL THAT JAZZ Directed by Bob Fosse Screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur
and Bob Fosse

There is nothing unpredictable about Bob Fosse: this gifted
director-choreographer has shown the same strengths and weaknesses
throughout his stage and film career. As a showman, he has no equal.
Music, performers, movement, lighting, costumes and sets all blend
together in Fosse productions to create brilliant flashes of
exhilarating razzle-dazzle. Yet the man just does not know when to
leave well enough alone. Too often Fosse insists on fusing
entertainment with superficially conceived Big Themes. Certainly
musicals have a right to be serious, but Fosse's song-and-dance...